PowerPoint Presentation Unraveling Nature's Mysteries

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Unraveling Natures Mysteries Spring 2004 Public
Lecture Series
In cooperation with the University of New
Brunswick, Science East is pleased to host a
Spring Science Forum featuring lectures from
community scientists. TIME 730-830 pm
DATES April 2nd-April 30th LOCATION Science
East
The Value of Science
Theme 1-April 2nd, 2004 Responding to stress in a
cold, hard, (and bright!) world
With more knowledge comes deeper, more wonderful
mystery, luring one on to penetrate deeper
still....with pleasure and confidence we turn
over each new stone to find unimagined
strangeness leading on to more wonderful
questions and mysteries-certainly a grand
adventure! Richard Feynman. The pleasure of
finding things out. Cambridge Perseus
Publishing. 1999
Lectures presented by Dr. Dion Durnford Here
comes the sun strategies plants use to survive
in a stressful world Dr. Aurora Nedelcu Run,
Forrest, Run! Alternative responses to stress and
DNA damage
Photo courtesy of A. Nedelcu, UNB
Theme 2-April 16th, 2004 Marine flora The good,
the bad, .the beautiful!
Theme 3-April 23rd, 2004 Reconstructing earths
history
Lectures presented by Dr. Gary
Saunders Floristics, Fundy, Fascinating Red
algae Dr. Janice Lawrence Dangerous liaisons
viral control of red tides
Lectures presented by Dr. Rod Savidge The land
before dinosaurs plants of the Palaeozoic Dr.
Les Cwynar Global climate change an historical
perspective
Photos courtesy of R. Withall
Photos courtesy of Cwynar Lab, UNB
Theme 4-April 30th, 2004 Parasitism and
symbioses sometimes you just cant go it
alone
Theme 5-Date TBA Biotechnology (Aventis Biotech
Challenge)
Lectures presented by Dr. Michael Burt Worms we
eat (or ate) Ms. Penny Humby I get by with a
little help from my friends
Lectures presented by Dr. Denise Clark Flies
R Us? Drosophila models of human genetic
diseases Dr. Tilman Benfey Sex control in fish
Line drawing courtesy of P. Humby, UNB
Photo courtesy of A. Curry, UNB